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Research paper thumbnail of Lecture Series in Comparative Politics; "Finland and Sweden's Entry into NATO Understanding the Informational and Cognitive Dimensions of the New Cold War;" Online Lecture by Gregory Simons

“Finland and Sweden’s Entry into NATO: Understanding the Informational and Cognitive Dimensions o... more “Finland and Sweden’s Entry into NATO: Understanding the Informational and Cognitive Dimensions of the New Cold War;” Online Lecture by Gregory Simons (Turība University, Riga, Latvia); Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest (FSPUB); Moderator: Dragoș Petrescu (FSPUB); Monday, 15 April 2024, 17:45–19:15 EET/Bucharest; https://meet.google.com/cbe-oifv-ogx

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Research paper thumbnail of Cristina Petrescu, Dragoș Petrescu (coord.), Comunismul în România: O sută de ani de controverse (București, 2022)

A collective volume focusing on the period 1921-2021, that is, the 100-year period from the estab... more A collective volume focusing on the period 1921-2021, that is, the 100-year period from the establishment of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP).

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Research paper thumbnail of Dragoș Petrescu (coord.), Comunismul în România: Memorie și istorie (București, 2020)

Comunismul în România: Memorie și istorie, 2020

Transdisciplinary and transnational approaches to the communist period in Romania (1945-1989).

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Research paper thumbnail of Entangled Revolutions: The Breakdown of the Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe

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Research paper thumbnail of Explaining the Romanian Revolution of 1989: Culture, Structure, and Contingency

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Research paper thumbnail of Nation-Building and Contested Identities: Romanian & Hungarian Case Studies

One of the very few collaborative and comparative book projects focusing on nation-building and i... more One of the very few collaborative and comparative book projects focusing on nation-building and identity issues in Hungary and Romania, aiming at historical reconciliation and based on mutual understanding.

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Papers by Dragos Petrescu

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 5_State Socialism_Routledge History Handbook of Central & Eastern Europe in 20th Century_Vol. 4_Violence_2022

Chapter 5 - ”State Socialism” - by Włodzimierz Borodziej and Dragoş Petrescu of the Routledge His... more Chapter 5 - ”State Socialism” - by Włodzimierz Borodziej and Dragoş Petrescu of the Routledge History Handbook of Central & Eastern Europe in the 20th Century, Vol. 4 - ”Violence,” addresses the complicated history of communist East-Central Europe by focusing on political violence from a twofold perspective: state against citizens and citizens against the state.

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Research paper thumbnail of Dragos Petrescu, “Revisiting the Revolution of 1989: The end of the Communist Rule in Romania”

Human Rights and Political Dissent in Central Europe: Between the Helsinki Accords and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, edited by Jakub Tyszkiewicz (Routledge, 2022), 2022

A causal explanation of the only violent regime change in East-Central Europe during the "miracul... more A causal explanation of the only violent regime change in East-Central Europe during the "miraculous year" 1989: the breakdown of the communist regime in Romania.

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Research paper thumbnail of Dossier – “New Perspectives on Contemporary Romania: From Dictatorial Pasts to a European Future”

Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea,(Madrid), 2020

Dossier – “New Perspectives on Contemporary Romania: From Dictatorial Pasts to a European Future,... more Dossier – “New Perspectives on Contemporary Romania: From Dictatorial Pasts to a European Future,” Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea, Vol. 42 (2020).

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Research paper thumbnail of One Bloody Regime Change and Three Political Paradoxes. The Romanian Revolution of 1989 and Its Legacy

Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea (Madrid), 2020

In most of Central Europe, the legacy of the negotiated or peaceful regime changes of 1989 is pre... more In most of Central Europe, the legacy of the negotiated or peaceful regime changes of 1989 is present-day illiberalism. Paradoxically, the feeble anti-communist dissent in Romania fostered a bloody regime change in December 1989, whose legacy hampered for the time being an illiberal turn in that country. This study explains why..

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Research paper thumbnail of Closely Watched Tourism: The Securitate as Warden of Transnational Encounters, 1967-69

The period 1967-1969 represented the peak of ideological relaxation in communist Romania. This ar... more The period 1967-1969 represented the peak of ideological relaxation in communist Romania. This article analyzes this brief period of increased permeability of the borders of communist Romania for international tourism and discusses the increasingly harsh measures adopted by the regime and the Securitate to stop the growing number of Romanian citizens who flew to the West.

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Research paper thumbnail of Building the Nation, Instrumentalizing Nationalism: Revisiting Romanian National-Communism, 1956-1989

This study provides an in-depth analysis of Romanian national-communism as it developed in the po... more This study provides an in-depth analysis of Romanian national-communism as it developed in the post-1956 period, focusing on three crucial concepts: (1) nation; (2) nationalism; and (3) nation-building.

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Research paper thumbnail of Law in Action in Romania, 2008–2018: Context, Agency, and Innovation in the Process of Transitional Justice

Journal of Romanian Studies, 2020

This work addresses the process of transitional justice (TJ) in post-1989 Romania. It focuses pri... more This work addresses the process of transitional justice (TJ) in post-1989 Romania. It focuses primarily on the opening of the files of the communist secret police (the Securitate) and argues that the most relevant outcome of the TJ process in Romania is the systematic public exposure of violation of fundamental human rights by the communist regime over the period 1945-89.

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Research paper thumbnail of Dealing with the Securitate Files in Post-Communist Romania: Legal and Institutional Aspects

Florian Kührer-Wielach und Michaela Nowotnik (Hgg.), Aus den Giftschränken des Kommunismus: Methodische Fragen zum Umgang mit Überwachungsakten in Zentral- und Südosteuropa, 2018

In post-communist Romania, due to a series of internal and external factors, the process of deali... more In post-communist Romania, due to a series of internal and external factors, the process of dealing with the files of the communist secret police, the Securitate, has led primarily to systematic public exposure of the misdeeds of the former communist regime, which in turn has enabled informal lustration. This study explains why this peculiarity has occurred in the Romanian case.

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Research paper thumbnail of Public Exposure Without Lustration

This study focuses on the files of the Securitate, the former communist secret police in Romania,... more This study focuses on the files of the Securitate, the former communist secret police in Romania, and discusses the legal and institutional aspects of the process of opening these files to the public. The study puts a special emphasis on the period following the 2008 change of legal framework regarding the functioning of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS).

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Research paper thumbnail of The Revolution of 1989 and the Rashomon Effect: Recollections of the Collapse of Communism in Romania

Remembering Communism: Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe, 2014

This chapter addresses the 1989 regime change in Romania from the perspective of the "contradicto... more This chapter addresses the 1989 regime change in Romania from the perspective of the "contradictory truths" concerning the bloody events of December 1989 and their ambiguous aftermath. In the case of Romania - in spite of the bloody revolution that brought down the Ceausescu regime and claimed the lives of over 1,100 individuals - at least three plausible versions of the events coexist as contradictory truths about the revolution and have created an enduring Rashomon effect: (1) coup d'etat; (2) genuine revolution; and (3) international conspiracy.

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Research paper thumbnail of Continuity, Legitimacy and Identity: Understanding the Romanian August of 1968

Cuadernos de Historia Contemporanea (Madrid), 2009

On 21 August 1968, the supreme leader of Romanian communists, Nicolae Ceausescu, publicly condemn... more On 21 August 1968, the supreme leader of Romanian communists, Nicolae Ceausescu, publicly condemned the Soviet-led invasion of the Warsaw Treaty Organization in Czechoslovakia. This study traces communist Romania's road to August 1968 by examining the birth of national communism in that country.

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Research paper thumbnail of Fifty-Six as an Identity-Shaping Experience: The Case of the Romanian Communists

THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET BLOC COUNTRIES: REACTIONS AND REPERCUSSIONS, 2007

Fear of Moscow and distrust of Budapest were two most enduring features of the political culture... more Fear of Moscow and distrust of Budapest were two most enduring features of the political culture of the Romanian communist elite. This chapter explains how the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 reinforced the distrust-of-Budapest feature.

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Research paper thumbnail of Imagined Community and Organized Solidarity: Nation, Nationalism and Nation-Building in Romania, 1918-1981

Elites, Networks of Power and Citizens, 2019

Modern nation-building in Romania was a process accelerated by the 1918 unification of Transylvan... more Modern nation-building in Romania was a process accelerated by the 1918 unification of Transylvania with the Old Kingdom of Romania. This study argues that this process was continued under communist rule and entered a final stage in the early 1980s.

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Research paper thumbnail of Natiune, nationalism si constructie nationala in Romania: Marea Unire, identitatea nationala si discursurile legitimatoare din perioada comunista, 1945-1989

Arhivele Totalitarismului, 2018

This study focuses on the key concepts of nation, nationalism and nation-building in order to dem... more This study focuses on the key concepts of nation, nationalism and nation-building in order to demonstrate that the process of nation-building in Romania entered its final stage in the early 1980s. If one is to choose a year for the coming to an end of this process this would be 1981 rather than 1918. That the process of nation-building in Romania came to an end in the 1980s is also supported by the very fact that Romania did not follow the fate of the "unrealized" Czechoslovak or Yugoslav nations after 1989.

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Research paper thumbnail of Lecture Series in Comparative Politics; "Finland and Sweden's Entry into NATO Understanding the Informational and Cognitive Dimensions of the New Cold War;" Online Lecture by Gregory Simons

“Finland and Sweden’s Entry into NATO: Understanding the Informational and Cognitive Dimensions o... more “Finland and Sweden’s Entry into NATO: Understanding the Informational and Cognitive Dimensions of the New Cold War;” Online Lecture by Gregory Simons (Turība University, Riga, Latvia); Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest (FSPUB); Moderator: Dragoș Petrescu (FSPUB); Monday, 15 April 2024, 17:45–19:15 EET/Bucharest; https://meet.google.com/cbe-oifv-ogx

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Research paper thumbnail of Cristina Petrescu, Dragoș Petrescu (coord.), Comunismul în România: O sută de ani de controverse (București, 2022)

A collective volume focusing on the period 1921-2021, that is, the 100-year period from the estab... more A collective volume focusing on the period 1921-2021, that is, the 100-year period from the establishment of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP).

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Research paper thumbnail of Dragoș Petrescu (coord.), Comunismul în România: Memorie și istorie (București, 2020)

Comunismul în România: Memorie și istorie, 2020

Transdisciplinary and transnational approaches to the communist period in Romania (1945-1989).

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Research paper thumbnail of Entangled Revolutions: The Breakdown of the Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe

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Research paper thumbnail of Explaining the Romanian Revolution of 1989: Culture, Structure, and Contingency

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Research paper thumbnail of Nation-Building and Contested Identities: Romanian & Hungarian Case Studies

One of the very few collaborative and comparative book projects focusing on nation-building and i... more One of the very few collaborative and comparative book projects focusing on nation-building and identity issues in Hungary and Romania, aiming at historical reconciliation and based on mutual understanding.

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Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 5_State Socialism_Routledge History Handbook of Central & Eastern Europe in 20th Century_Vol. 4_Violence_2022

Chapter 5 - ”State Socialism” - by Włodzimierz Borodziej and Dragoş Petrescu of the Routledge His... more Chapter 5 - ”State Socialism” - by Włodzimierz Borodziej and Dragoş Petrescu of the Routledge History Handbook of Central & Eastern Europe in the 20th Century, Vol. 4 - ”Violence,” addresses the complicated history of communist East-Central Europe by focusing on political violence from a twofold perspective: state against citizens and citizens against the state.

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Research paper thumbnail of Dragos Petrescu, “Revisiting the Revolution of 1989: The end of the Communist Rule in Romania”

Human Rights and Political Dissent in Central Europe: Between the Helsinki Accords and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, edited by Jakub Tyszkiewicz (Routledge, 2022), 2022

A causal explanation of the only violent regime change in East-Central Europe during the "miracul... more A causal explanation of the only violent regime change in East-Central Europe during the "miraculous year" 1989: the breakdown of the communist regime in Romania.

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Research paper thumbnail of Dossier – “New Perspectives on Contemporary Romania: From Dictatorial Pasts to a European Future”

Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea,(Madrid), 2020

Dossier – “New Perspectives on Contemporary Romania: From Dictatorial Pasts to a European Future,... more Dossier – “New Perspectives on Contemporary Romania: From Dictatorial Pasts to a European Future,” Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea, Vol. 42 (2020).

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Research paper thumbnail of One Bloody Regime Change and Three Political Paradoxes. The Romanian Revolution of 1989 and Its Legacy

Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea (Madrid), 2020

In most of Central Europe, the legacy of the negotiated or peaceful regime changes of 1989 is pre... more In most of Central Europe, the legacy of the negotiated or peaceful regime changes of 1989 is present-day illiberalism. Paradoxically, the feeble anti-communist dissent in Romania fostered a bloody regime change in December 1989, whose legacy hampered for the time being an illiberal turn in that country. This study explains why..

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Research paper thumbnail of Closely Watched Tourism: The Securitate as Warden of Transnational Encounters, 1967-69

The period 1967-1969 represented the peak of ideological relaxation in communist Romania. This ar... more The period 1967-1969 represented the peak of ideological relaxation in communist Romania. This article analyzes this brief period of increased permeability of the borders of communist Romania for international tourism and discusses the increasingly harsh measures adopted by the regime and the Securitate to stop the growing number of Romanian citizens who flew to the West.

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Research paper thumbnail of Building the Nation, Instrumentalizing Nationalism: Revisiting Romanian National-Communism, 1956-1989

This study provides an in-depth analysis of Romanian national-communism as it developed in the po... more This study provides an in-depth analysis of Romanian national-communism as it developed in the post-1956 period, focusing on three crucial concepts: (1) nation; (2) nationalism; and (3) nation-building.

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Research paper thumbnail of Law in Action in Romania, 2008–2018: Context, Agency, and Innovation in the Process of Transitional Justice

Journal of Romanian Studies, 2020

This work addresses the process of transitional justice (TJ) in post-1989 Romania. It focuses pri... more This work addresses the process of transitional justice (TJ) in post-1989 Romania. It focuses primarily on the opening of the files of the communist secret police (the Securitate) and argues that the most relevant outcome of the TJ process in Romania is the systematic public exposure of violation of fundamental human rights by the communist regime over the period 1945-89.

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Research paper thumbnail of Dealing with the Securitate Files in Post-Communist Romania: Legal and Institutional Aspects

Florian Kührer-Wielach und Michaela Nowotnik (Hgg.), Aus den Giftschränken des Kommunismus: Methodische Fragen zum Umgang mit Überwachungsakten in Zentral- und Südosteuropa, 2018

In post-communist Romania, due to a series of internal and external factors, the process of deali... more In post-communist Romania, due to a series of internal and external factors, the process of dealing with the files of the communist secret police, the Securitate, has led primarily to systematic public exposure of the misdeeds of the former communist regime, which in turn has enabled informal lustration. This study explains why this peculiarity has occurred in the Romanian case.

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Research paper thumbnail of Public Exposure Without Lustration

This study focuses on the files of the Securitate, the former communist secret police in Romania,... more This study focuses on the files of the Securitate, the former communist secret police in Romania, and discusses the legal and institutional aspects of the process of opening these files to the public. The study puts a special emphasis on the period following the 2008 change of legal framework regarding the functioning of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS).

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Research paper thumbnail of The Revolution of 1989 and the Rashomon Effect: Recollections of the Collapse of Communism in Romania

Remembering Communism: Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe, 2014

This chapter addresses the 1989 regime change in Romania from the perspective of the "contradicto... more This chapter addresses the 1989 regime change in Romania from the perspective of the "contradictory truths" concerning the bloody events of December 1989 and their ambiguous aftermath. In the case of Romania - in spite of the bloody revolution that brought down the Ceausescu regime and claimed the lives of over 1,100 individuals - at least three plausible versions of the events coexist as contradictory truths about the revolution and have created an enduring Rashomon effect: (1) coup d'etat; (2) genuine revolution; and (3) international conspiracy.

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Research paper thumbnail of Continuity, Legitimacy and Identity: Understanding the Romanian August of 1968

Cuadernos de Historia Contemporanea (Madrid), 2009

On 21 August 1968, the supreme leader of Romanian communists, Nicolae Ceausescu, publicly condemn... more On 21 August 1968, the supreme leader of Romanian communists, Nicolae Ceausescu, publicly condemned the Soviet-led invasion of the Warsaw Treaty Organization in Czechoslovakia. This study traces communist Romania's road to August 1968 by examining the birth of national communism in that country.

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Research paper thumbnail of Fifty-Six as an Identity-Shaping Experience: The Case of the Romanian Communists

THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET BLOC COUNTRIES: REACTIONS AND REPERCUSSIONS, 2007

Fear of Moscow and distrust of Budapest were two most enduring features of the political culture... more Fear of Moscow and distrust of Budapest were two most enduring features of the political culture of the Romanian communist elite. This chapter explains how the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 reinforced the distrust-of-Budapest feature.

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Research paper thumbnail of Imagined Community and Organized Solidarity: Nation, Nationalism and Nation-Building in Romania, 1918-1981

Elites, Networks of Power and Citizens, 2019

Modern nation-building in Romania was a process accelerated by the 1918 unification of Transylvan... more Modern nation-building in Romania was a process accelerated by the 1918 unification of Transylvania with the Old Kingdom of Romania. This study argues that this process was continued under communist rule and entered a final stage in the early 1980s.

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Research paper thumbnail of Natiune, nationalism si constructie nationala in Romania: Marea Unire, identitatea nationala si discursurile legitimatoare din perioada comunista, 1945-1989

Arhivele Totalitarismului, 2018

This study focuses on the key concepts of nation, nationalism and nation-building in order to dem... more This study focuses on the key concepts of nation, nationalism and nation-building in order to demonstrate that the process of nation-building in Romania entered its final stage in the early 1980s. If one is to choose a year for the coming to an end of this process this would be 1981 rather than 1918. That the process of nation-building in Romania came to an end in the 1980s is also supported by the very fact that Romania did not follow the fate of the "unrealized" Czechoslovak or Yugoslav nations after 1989.

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Research paper thumbnail of Repararea nedreptatilor comise de fostul regim comunist din Romania. Un caz special de difuziune intra-regionala a modelului german

Jurisdictia constitutionala dupa 20 de ani de la caderea cortinei comuniste, 2014

This chapter analyzes the process of opening the files of the former communist secret police in R... more This chapter analyzes the process of opening the files of the former communist secret police in Romania, the Securitate, as a part of the process of dealing with the communist past after the 1989 regime change. The main argument set forth is that the Romanian case represents a particular case of diffusion in East-Central Europe of the German model of dealing with the Stasi files.

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Research paper thumbnail of 400.000 de spirite creatoare: "Cintarea Romaniei" sau stalinismul national in festival

Miturile comunismului romanesc, 1998

"Cintarea Romaniei" was an annual national festival launched in 1976 under the rule of Nicolae Ce... more "Cintarea Romaniei" was an annual national festival launched in 1976 under the rule of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania. This article explains that this festival was actually meant to promote ethnic nationalism and cultural autarky.

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Research paper thumbnail of Can Democracy Work in Southeastern Europe? Ethnic Nationalism vs. Democratic Consolidation in Post-Communist Romania

Nation-Building and Contested Identities: Romanian & Hungarian Case Studies, 2001

This chapter addresses the issue of identity politics in post-1989 Romania focusing on the so-cal... more This chapter addresses the issue of identity politics in post-1989 Romania focusing on the so-called Hungarian question in Transylvania during the first post-communist decade.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Spies Who Defended Us: Spy Stories and Legitimating Discourses in Ceausescu's Romania, 1965-77

Romanian Intelligence Studies Review, 2018

This article addresses the problem of legitimation under communist rule in Romania during the epo... more This article addresses the problem of legitimation under communist rule in Romania during the epoch of Nicolae Ceausescu (1965-89) by focusing on the communist spy novels published during a particular time span, that is, 1965-77. Communist spy novels set forth a fictional character, the counterintelligence (Securitate) officer who fought on the "invisible front" against Western spies sent to Romania to steal "state secrets'". Such novels obviously obscured the repressive character of the Securitate and attempted at legitimating the communist rule.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Canon of Remembering Romanian Communism: From Autobiographical Recollections to Collective Representations

This study focuses on institutionalization of memory in post-communist Romania with regard to the... more This study focuses on institutionalization of memory in post-communist Romania with regard to the communist epoch, i.e., 1945-89, by addressing patterns of active remembering and forgetting.

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Research paper thumbnail of Communist Legacies in the "New Europe:" History, Ethnicity, and the Creation of a "Socialist" Nation in Romania, 1945-1989

This text focuses on nation-building in modern Romania and argues that the process of turning pea... more This text focuses on nation-building in modern Romania and argues that the process of turning peasants into Romanians (to paraphrase Eugen Weber) had three dimensions - (1) elite manipulation; (2) cultural reproduction; and (3) modernization conducted from above - and became effective only under the national-communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu (1965-89).

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Research paper thumbnail of The Nomenklatura Talks: Former Romanian Party Dignitaries on Gheorghiu-Dej and Ceauşescu

An analysis of memoirs and witness accounts by former nomenklatura members in Romania, published ... more An analysis of memoirs and witness accounts by former nomenklatura members in Romania, published during the period 1990-2002.

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Research paper thumbnail of Lecture Series in Comparative Politics The Cold War A Global Struggle for the Hearts and Minds of the World or the Last Conflict for Europe? Lecture by Paschalis Pechlivanis

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Research paper thumbnail of ”The Balkans viewed as a Microcosm of the Cold War;” Online Lecture by Paschalis Pechlivanis (Utrecht University)

Master Program in Comparative Politics (MCP-FSPUB); Lecture Series in Comparative Politics; ”The ... more Master Program in Comparative Politics (MCP-FSPUB); Lecture Series in Comparative Politics; ”The Balkans viewed as a Microcosm of the Cold War;” Online Lecture by Paschalis Pechlivanis (Utrecht University); Moderator: Dragoş Petrescu (FSPUB); Thursday, 24 November 2022, 17:30-19:00 EET/Bucharest

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Research paper thumbnail of Online Lecture by Prof. Gregory Simons (Uppsala Univ.)

“European (In)Security in the Era of the New Cold War: Before and After 24 February 2022;” Online... more “European (In)Security in the Era of the New Cold War: Before and After 24 February 2022;” Online Lecture by Gregory Simons (Uppsala University); Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest; Wednesday, 29 March 2023; 12:30 – 14:00 EET/Bucharest; https://meet.google.com/mwn-uyoq-tik?hs=224

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Research paper thumbnail of Workshop - The Age of Uncertainty: Welfare Chauvinism and New Social Movements in Europe

Society for Romanian Studies, Working Group ”Postwar Politics, History & Culture;” Workshop ”The ... more Society for Romanian Studies, Working Group ”Postwar Politics, History & Culture;” Workshop ”The Age of Uncertainty: Welfare Chauvinism and New Social Movements in Europe;” Speakers: Claudiu Tufiş & Sergiu Delcea; Moderator: Dragoș Petrescu. Thursday, 3 November 2022, 17:30–19:30 EET, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest.

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Research paper thumbnail of 2022 SRS Conference; Roundtable: The State of the Art in Romanian Studies

Society for Romanian Studies (SRS); 2022 Conference, Universitatea de Vest, Timişoara – Roundtabl... more Society for Romanian Studies (SRS); 2022 Conference, Universitatea de Vest, Timişoara – Roundtable: The State of the Art in Romanian Studies; Participants: Paul MICHELSON (Huntington U, US); Adrian MIROIU (SNSPA Bucharest, RO); Ruxandra TRANDAFOIU (Edge Hill U, UK); Roland CLARK (U of Liverpool, UK); Dragoş PETRESCU (U of Bucharest, RO); Friday, 17 June 2022; 11:00-12:30; Session H/H5, Room 607b

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Research paper thumbnail of COVID-19 in East-Central Europe: Diverse Policy Responses to the Pandemic

This panel addresses the COVID-19 pandemic in East-Central Europe from the perspective of policy ... more This panel addresses the COVID-19 pandemic in East-Central Europe from the perspective of policy responses to the crisis in four countries in the region: Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Panelists analyze the diverse responses to the pandemic these states have adopted and examine whether the responses indicate unity in diversity or clear differentiation among them. Attila ANTAL argues that COVID-19 pandemic offered to Viktor Orbán's regime in Hungary the opportunity to capitalize on the crisis and introduce long-lasting exceptional measures, and thus authoritarian populism in Hungary entered a new phase in which the use of emergency power will be crucial. Krzysztof BRZECHCZYN employs the concept of "regulative credit" to examine the way Polish society supported the government by giving it a "regulative credit" during the most difficult periods of COVID-19 crisis and the emergence of social protest when restrictions lasted too long. Vítězslav SOMMER addresses political controversies related to COVID-19 pandemic in Czechia by looking at the longer history of the relationship between policy-making and expertise, and argues that this conflicting interaction played a key role in that country before and after 1989. Dragoş PETRESCU analyzes contradictory responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Romania, from issues of lpath dependence and legal security, which led to mishandling of the public health crisis in mid-2020 to digital solutions, which enabled a smooth handling of the vaccination campaign in early 2021. Daniel CHIROT, a prominent scholarly figure in the fields of political, social and economic change will be chair and discussant to the panel.

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Research paper thumbnail of #ROMANIA100+: Interdisciplinary Conference (Online), University of Bucharest, Friday, 26 November 2021

Interdisciplinary Conference (Online): "Contested Pasts, Conflicting Present, Uncertain Future?" ... more Interdisciplinary Conference (Online): "Contested Pasts, Conflicting Present, Uncertain Future?" [Trecuturi contestate, prezent conflictual, viitor incert?]; Friday, 26 November 2021, 10:00–18:30 EET/Bucharest.

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Research paper thumbnail of CoMIst2021 – Online conference. #ComunismulinRomania100; University of Bucharest; Friday, 14 May 2021, 10:00-18:30 EET/Bucharest.

CoMIst2021 – Online conference. #ComunismulinRomania100: looking retrospectively at the 100 years... more CoMIst2021 – Online conference. #ComunismulinRomania100: looking retrospectively at the 100 years which elapsed since the establishment of the Romanian Communist Party on 8 May 1921. Organized by the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Friday, 14 May 2021, 10:00-18:30 EET/Bucharest.

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Research paper thumbnail of ASEEES Panel Anxiety

ASEEES Annual Convention, 2020

Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) - 2020 Virtual Annual Convent... more Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) - 2020 Virtual Annual Convention; PANEL: Anxiety and Fatigue in East-Central Europe, 1989–2019:
Neoliberalism, Populism, and the New Politics of National Identity; Sunday, November 15, 12:00 to 1:30pm EST, Virtual Convention Platform, Room 22

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Research paper thumbnail of International Conference (Online) - East-Central Europe, from Communism to Populism (1990-2020), Bucharest, 30 October 2020

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Research paper thumbnail of International Panel on Opening the Secret Police Files in Europe, West and East; Bucharest, 11 October 2019

An international panel on opening the secret police files in Europe, East and West, with a specia... more An international panel on opening the secret police files in Europe, East and West, with a special emphasis on the cases of Spain, Poland and Romania organized in the framework of the international conference THIRTY YEARS AFTER: POST-COMMUNISM, DEMOCRACY AND ILLIBERALISM IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, Bucharest, 9-11 October 2019.

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Research paper thumbnail of CoMIst 2019 COMUNISMUL ÎN ROMÂNIA: MEMORIE ŞI ISTORIE

Interdisciplinary conference on Romanian communism and post-communism/Conferinta interdisciplinar... more Interdisciplinary conference on Romanian communism and post-communism/Conferinta interdisciplinara privind comunismul si postcomunismul in Romania
Location/Loc de desfasurare: Library of the Romanian Academy/Biblioteca Academiei Romane

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Research paper thumbnail of THIRTY YEARS AFTER Call for papers International Conference Bucharest 9-11 October

CALL FOR PAPERS: International conference in Bucharest, 9-11 October 2019, on the causes, unfoldi... more CALL FOR PAPERS: International conference in Bucharest, 9-11 October 2019, on the causes, unfolding, meaning and consequences of the 1989 regime changes in East-Central Europe.

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Research paper thumbnail of Istoria sociala si sociologia istorica: Frontiere comune sau practici transgresive?_Institutul de Istorie "Nicolae Iorga"_17.04.2019

An interdisciplinary workshop on the latest developments in the fields of social history and hist... more An interdisciplinary workshop on the latest developments in the fields of social history and historical sociology in Romania.

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Research paper thumbnail of Transnational Dimensions of Dealing with the Past in 'Third Wave' Democracies. Central Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in Global Perspective

Bucharest, 2019

International Conference on transnational dimensions of dealing with the past.

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Research paper thumbnail of Worskshop CoMIst_28 Febr 2019.pdf

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Research paper thumbnail of Program and Conference Abstracts: Between Enslavement and Resistance: Attitudes towards Communism in East European Societies (1945-1989)

After the Second World War, the Central and East European region was integrated into the Soviet s... more After the Second World War, the Central and East European region was integrated into the Soviet sphere of influence. The active construction of communism across the region during the Stalinist period (1945-1950s) had a number of far-reaching consequences, which arguably transformed the East European region. In the cultural sphere it meant the spreading of Stalin's cult of propaganda, the imposition of Marxist ideology and the persecution of any perceived opposition or alternative world-views. The economic sphere was marked by the liquidation of private property, collectivization of agriculture and rapid industrialization under the Soviet-style system of central planning. In the political sphere, the shift to a one-party state meant that all non-communist parties and organizations were liquidated and the power of the communist party was secured through mass repression and police surveillance. While the post-Stalinist period led to some liberalization within certain Eastern bloc countries, the limits to reform and relaxation were periodically reinforced, for example in 1956 (Poland and Hungary); 1968 (Czechoslovakia) and 1981 (Poland). The realities of life under communism provoked a multifaceted response among individuals and groups within East European societies between 1945-1989, ranging from support for, complicity with, dissent from and resistance to communism, as people struggled to navigate and negotiate the new parameters of their existence. This conference has two broad aims: (1) to analyse the various methods and experiences of communist control over Eastern Europe and (2) to examine different coping methods and strategies of resistance employed by those who lived under communist rule.

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Research paper thumbnail of Re-Imagining the Balkans How to Think and Teach a Region

Re-Imagining the Balkans: How to Think and Teach a Region - Festschrift in Honor of Maria N. Todorova

Re-Imagining the Balkans: How to Think and Teach a Region - Festschrift in Honor of Maria N. Todo... more Re-Imagining the Balkans: How to Think and Teach a Region - Festschrift in Honor of Maria N. Todorova, edited by Augusta Dimou, Theodora Dragostinova, and Veneta Ivanova (De Gruyter, 2023).

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Research paper thumbnail of Homeland and National Identity in Southeastern Europe

East Eur Polit Soc, 2001

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Research paper thumbnail of Journal of Romanian Studies. Volume 2,2 (2020

Journal of Romanian Studies, 2020

Journal of Romanian Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2020), Special issue: Law, History and Justice in Rom... more Journal of Romanian Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2020), Special issue: Law, History and Justice in Romania

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Research paper thumbnail of Dragos Petrescu: Review of Jolan Bogdan, Performative Contradiction and the Romanian Revolution (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).pdf

Slavic Review, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Comunismul in Romania O suta de ani de controverse

Comunismul în România: O sută de ani de controverse (București: Editura Pro Universitaria, 2022)... more Comunismul în România: O sută de ani de controverse (București: Editura Pro Universitaria, 2022). Un proiect susținut de Fundația Konrad Adenauer.

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Research paper thumbnail of Krzysztof Brzechczyn (red.) Interpretacje upadku komunizmu w Polsce i w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej. Poznań: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej 2011, ss. 281.

Przełom ustrojowy dokonujący się w 1989 roku w Polsce i w całej Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej – jeg... more Przełom ustrojowy dokonujący się w 1989 roku w Polsce i w całej Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej – jego geneza, przebieg i następstwa – budzi do dzisiaj zainteresowanie nauk społecznych i historiografii poszczególnych krajów regionu. Podstawowymi problemami badawczymi są charakter dokonanej zmiany ustrojowej, znaczenie roku 1989 dla dalszego rozwoju tożsamości i świadomości społeczeństw Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej oraz miejsce Polski w przemianach ustrojowych lat 1988–1991. Pytania te zakreślają konceptualno-problemowy horyzont książki.
Praca została podzielona na trzy części. W części "Upadek komunizmu w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej" zostały przedstawione rozmaite aspekty upadku komunizmu w wybranych krajach regionu. W artykułach zgromadzonych w części "Wybrane aspekty przełomu 1989 roku w Polsce: Interpretacje i przebieg" analizowany jest przebieg zmiany ustrojowej w świetle różnych koncepcji teoretycznych oraz przedstawione zostały szczegółowe aspekty przemiany ustrojowej w Polsce. W części "Przełom 1989 roku w świadomości społecznej" przedstawione zostały wydarzenia 1989 r. w różnych formach świadomości społecznej: historiograficznej, artystycznej, potocznej i historycznej.

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Research paper thumbnail of “The Cold War: A Global Struggle for the Hearts and Minds of the World or the Last Conflict for Europe?” Online Lecture by Paschalis Pechlivanis (Utrecht University)

“The Cold War: A Global Struggle for the Hearts and Minds of the World or the Last Conflict for ... more “The Cold War: A Global Struggle for the Hearts and Minds of the World or the Last Conflict for Europe?” Online Lecture by Paschalis Pechlivanis (Utrecht University); Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest (FSPUB); Moderator: Dragoș Petrescu (FSPUB); Monday, 18 March 2024, 17:45–19:15 EET/Bucharest; meet.google.com/kej-mmpa-tbc

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Research paper thumbnail of ”Democratization & Nationalist Conflict in Former Yugoslavia;” Lecture by Nebojša Vladisavljević

“Democratization & Nationalist Conflict in Former Yugoslavia;” Online Lecture by Nebojša Vladisav... more “Democratization & Nationalist Conflict in Former Yugoslavia;” Online Lecture by Nebojša Vladisavljević; Moderator: Dragoș Petrescu (FSPUB); Thursday, 7 December 2023, 18:00–19:30 EET/Bucharest; meet.google.com/xnx-ymoq-brp

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Research paper thumbnail of "Transnational Migrations in the Divided and Integrating Europe: The Case of Poland since 1945;" Online Lecture by Dariusz Stola

“Transnational Migrations in the Divided and Integrating Europe: The Case of Poland since 1945;" ... more “Transnational Migrations in the Divided and Integrating Europe: The Case of Poland since 1945;" Online Lecture by Dariusz Stola (Institute for Political Studies, Warsaw); Moderator: Cristina Petrescu (FSPUB); Monday, 11 December 2023, 15:00–16:30 EET/Bucharest; meet.google.com/vnf-rkup-wvr

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Research paper thumbnail of Lecture Series in Comparative Politics: "A German Perspective on Undersea Vulnerability: Submarine Cables in the Crosshairs of Geopolitics"

“A German Perspective on Undersea Vulnerability Submarine Cables in the Crosshairs of Geopolitic... more “A German Perspective on Undersea Vulnerability Submarine Cables in
the Crosshairs of Geopolitics;” Lecture by Ferdinand Gehringer (KAS Berlin); Opening remarks by Katja Plate (KAS Romania & R. of Moldova); Moderated by Dragoş Petrescu (FSPUB); Thursday, 9 Nov.2023, 18:00–19:30 EET\Room P.P. Negulescu, FSPUB, 8 Spiru Haret St.

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Research paper thumbnail of Online lecture by Prof. Cynthia M. Horne, 10 May 2021, 18.00-20.00 EET, U. of Bucharest

Lecture title: The Differentiated Effects of Transitional Justice on Trust-Building and Democracy... more Lecture title: The Differentiated Effects of Transitional Justice on
Trust-Building and Democracy Promotion in Post-Communist States; U. of Bucharest, 18.00-20.00 EET; Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89034608612

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Research paper thumbnail of Politics and Society in Romania, 1990-2020: From a Bloody Revolution to Left-Wing Populism

Faculty of Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University and Polish Philosophical Association, Poznań ... more Faculty of Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University and Polish Philosophical Association, Poznań Division invite for online lecture delivered by Prof. Dragoş Petrescu (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Political Science) Politics and Society in Romania, 1990-2020: From a Bloody Revolution to Left-Wing Populism

The lecture will be given in English, on Monday, Dezember 14, 2020 at 5 P.M. (Central European Time) on zoom platform. Below is an invite link to a lecture
https://zoom.us/j/93188406506?pwd=T21BekhDenorZ1R2N3ltYlhpbk1Bdz09

Abstract. The lecture will address the thirty-year period which elapsed from the bloody revolution of 1989 to the current COVID-19 pandemic by focusing on the complex relationship between politics and society. The presentation sets forth an explanatory model based on three types of factors, that is, structural, conjunctural and nation-specific, whose interplay explain the political developments in Romania as well as in the rest of East-Central Europe. Although these factors aggregated differently in each of the cases, they were nevertheless present in all countries which experienced a regime change in 1989. In the Romanian case, the analysis will focus on initiatives from above, as well as waves of mobilization from below. Romania’s convoluted road to NATO and EU accession will be thus discussed against the backdrop of several waves of mobilization from belows: (1) against the ”neo-communist” power, 1990-96; (2) for opening the Securitate files, 1996-2004; (3) for environmental protection – the “Roşia Montană” protests; and (4) against the decrminalization of acts of corruption, 2016-18.

Biogram. Dragoş PETRESCU (PhD 2003, Central European University–CEU, Budapest) is Full Professor of Comparative Politics at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest. Between 2003 and 2006, he served as Director of the Romanian Institute of Recent History (IRIR). From March 2006 to January 2010, he was a Member of the Board of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS) In Bucharest, and from January 2010 to March 2018 he served as Chairman of the said Board. His research interests are related to the comparative analysis of the communist regimes in East-Central Europe, the post-1989 transitions to democracy and the post-2010 democratic backslidings in the region, with a special emphasis on transitional justice, identity politics, institutionalization of memory and rise of populism. Among many others, he is the author of Explaining the Romanian Revolution of 1989: Culture, Structure, and Contingency (Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică, 2010) and Entangled Revolutions: The Breakdown of the Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe (Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică, 2014). For a detailed CV, see: https://unibuc.academia.edu/DPetrescu/CurriculumVitae

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Research paper thumbnail of DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA: Professor Daniel CHIROT (University of Washington, Seattle)

Professor Daniel CHIROT (University of Washington, Seattle): Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universi... more Professor Daniel CHIROT (University of Washington, Seattle): Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bucharest - Reception Speech and Related Materials

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Research paper thumbnail of Master in Comparative Politics, University of Bucharest

Master in Comparative Politics, Faculty of Political Science, University pf Bucharest; two-year M... more Master in Comparative Politics, Faculty of Political Science, University pf Bucharest; two-year MA program, fully taught in English; https://fsp.unibuc.ro/mcp/

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Research paper thumbnail of Master in Comparative Politics - Double Degree

Master in Comparative Politics, Faculty of Political Science, University pf Bucharest; two-year M... more Master in Comparative Politics, Faculty of Political Science, University pf Bucharest; two-year MA program, fully taught in English; https://fsp.unibuc.ro/mcp/

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Research paper thumbnail of Double Degree MA Program - International Relations & Comparative Politics

Double Degree MA Program, 2022

NEW!! Double Degree MA Program - International Relations (University of Naples Federico II) & Com... more NEW!! Double Degree MA Program - International Relations (University of Naples Federico II) & Comparative Politics (University of Bucharest); https://fsp.unibuc.ro/mcp/

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Research paper thumbnail of Master în Politică Comparată, Facultatea de Științe Politice, Universitatea din București; 2021/2022

Master în Politică Comparată, Facultatea de Științe Politice, Universitatea din București; 2 ani,... more Master în Politică Comparată, Facultatea de Științe Politice, Universitatea din București; 2 ani, predat integral în limba engleză, 120 credite ECTS.

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Research paper thumbnail of Master in Comparative Politics, University of Bucharest

Master in Comparative Politics, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, 2 years, f... more Master in Comparative Politics, Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, 2 years, fully taught in English, 120 ECTS credits

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Research paper thumbnail of Program de Master în Politică Comparată (în limba engleză)

Vrei un Master ca afară? Visezi la o carieră internaţională? Vino la FSPUB şi alege programul de ... more Vrei un Master ca afară? Visezi la o carieră internaţională? Vino la FSPUB şi alege programul de Master în Ştiinţe Politice, specializarea Politică Comparată, predat integral în limba engleză: 2 ani, 4 semestre, număr de credite: 120 ECTS; http://www.fspub.unibuc.ro/despre/curricula/mcp

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Research paper thumbnail of Poster_Master in Comparative Politics

Master in Political Science - Comparative Politics (fully taught in English), Faculty of Politica... more Master in Political Science - Comparative Politics (fully taught in English), Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest

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Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, 2020

Master in Comparative Politics. The Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest offers... more Master in Comparative Politics. The Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest offers a Master’s program in Comparative Politics; the two-year graduate study program (4 semesters) Master of Arts in Political Science – Comparative Politics (MCP) is fully taught in English. Number of credits: 120 ECTS. Program coordinator: Prof. dr. Dragos PETRESCU

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Research paper thumbnail of Lecture Series in Comparative Politics Balkan Communism and the Global Cold War A View from Bulgaria Lecture by Theodora Dragostinova

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Research paper thumbnail of "Balkan Communism and the Global Cold War A View from Bulgaria;" Lecture by Theodora Dragostinova

Master Program in Comparative Politics (MCP-FSPUB), Lecture Series in Comparative Politics; ”Balk... more Master Program in Comparative Politics (MCP-FSPUB), Lecture Series in Comparative Politics; ”Balkan Communism and the Global Cold War: A View from Bulgaria;” Online Lecture by Theodora Dragostinova (Ohio State University); Moderator: Dragoş Petrescu (FSPUB); Thursday, 17.11.2022, 17:30-19:00 EET

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